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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age, Early to Middle La Tene 456-395 BCE · Iron Age La Tene Lincolnshire
456/395 BCE Iron Age timber causeway (175 m) at Fiskerton, Witham Valley with 11 votive swords and logboats.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Iron Age, Late La Tene 148 BCE · Late Iron Age La Tene Ireland
147 BCE Iron Age oak plank highway (3.2 m wide, 1.6 km) across Corlea Bog, largest European timber road built in one year.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Middle to Late Iron Age (Atlantic Iron Age) · Shetland Atlantic Iron Age builders
South Mousa second broch and wheelhouse village 1.2 km south of famous Mousa Broch: prototype 500 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic 3500 BCE to Norse 1200 CE with broch Iron Age focus · Neolithic Grooved Ware to Iron Age broch to Norse
Stratified broch and settlement mound (3500 BCE - Norse) at Howe, Stromness, Orkney - 7-m type-section for Atlantic Iron Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Middle Iron Age Atlantic (vitrified forte) · Minch Hebridean islanders
Summit vitrified dun (28×18 m) with plastered rock-cut rain cistern (5.5 m³) on Garbh Eilean, Shiants.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Late Norse (2700 BCE–14th c CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age Pictish → Norse (Scalloway Jarlshof horizon)
4,000-yr Shetland settlement (2700 BCE–14th c) — 10-m broch with 4 wheelhouses overlain by Norse longhouses at Sumburgh.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Iron Age II to Islamic (1000 BCE–present; active) · Iron Age Oman (Lizq–Rumaylah) → Sasanian → Islamic Ya'aribah
3.5-km Iron Age daudi qanat (c.1000 BCE, 8 shafts) delivering 70 l/s — UNESCO aflaj flagship at Birkat al-Mouz.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Iron Age (1000–714 BCE) · Hurro-Urartian
Iron Age (1000–714 BCE) ancient-city of Hurro-Urartian in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Sidekan (c.1000 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age (c.500 BCE–100 CE) with Bronze Age cairn · Iron Age Welsh (Demetae) / Early Medieval
Rocky tor-top hillfort (343 m) above Newport — stone-rampart contour fort with hut circles on Mynydd Carningli.
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Iron Age (Hallstatt–La Tène) to early Gallo-Roman · Vendée maritime salt artisans (Armorican → Picton maritime)
Atlantic salt-marsh canal network (2.4 km, 2-4 m wide) feeding 180 evaporation pans producing 30 t sea salt/yr (Iron Age).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Iron Age (Late Iron Age, La Tène D, 148 BCE) · Irish Iron Age (La Tène, Uisnech kingship)
Iron Age 1-km oak causeway (148 BCE) — Keenagh's in situ twin to Corlea 1, part of 5-trackway Shannon bog field.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (La Tène B / Gaelic Ireland) · Gaelic Iron Age Ireland
Eastern continuation (48 m asl, 53°37′N 07°50′W 53.62,-7.84 Cloonbreany 2 Cartron Rd N39 XT18) of the Iron Age Corlea Trackway (148 BC precise dendro of 18-m preserved hall, 148 BC autumn fell) bog…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Early Iron Age (Jastorf / La Tène) · North German Early Iron Age
Dual Iron Age bog trackways (25 m asl) southeast through Wittmoor (Moor 53°42′00″N 10°04′10″E 53.699984N 10.069399E per Wikipedia No II 1904 Wolff discovery) and parallel No I 500 m northeast.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons
300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to modern with Iron Age peak · Camunni (Rhaetic-adjacent Alpine) and predecessors
140,000 figures on 2,000 Alpine slabs—world's densest European rock art valley (UNESCO 1979 No.1 Italy).
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age Moated 600 BCE–500 CE → Chenla · Iron Age Isan–Khmer moated (Mekong–Tonle) → Chenla
Iron Age moated town and cemetery (c.600 BCE–500 CE) at Phum Snay inland from the Tonle Sap northwest — linear earthwork 15 km with moat ditch and 21 burials with agate–carnelian beads, bronze…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age Funan precursor 500 BCE–200 CE → Funan–Chenla · Mekong Iron Age (Prohear) → Funan (proto-Khmer)
Iron Age mass burial and settlement terrace (c.500 BCE–200 CE) at Prohear in Prey Veng near Mekong, southern Cambodia — circular mound 0.8 ha excavated 2008–11 by Andreas Reinecke (German–Cambodian)…
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village
Early Iron Age, Lusatian culture Hallstatt C · Lusatian (Lausitz) culture Hallstatt-period farmers
740 BCE Lusatian lake-fort—106 identical street-grid houses on Lake Biskupin islet.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age (Middle–Late Iron Age, 350–50 BCE) · British Iron Age (Meare–Glastonbury ware, southwest Iron Age)
Iron Age (350–50 BCE) Meare East lake village — 400 x 90 m east island with 20 brushwood roundhouses.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Bronze to Middle Iron Age (2200 BCE–200 CE) · Hebridean Bronze–Iron (Machair Beaker to Atlantic wheelhouse)
13-machair roundhouses (2200 BCE–200 CE) with 4 curated composite mummies (1100–800 BCE) — Europe's only mummy curation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (peak Iron Age) · Bronze Age to Iron Age Severn communities
Iron Age corduroy trackways (1000–100 BCE) on Goldcliff intertidal peat shelf — 30-m brushwood causeways.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic (2000–1300) → Black-slipped/Iron (1300–600 BCE) → NBPW–Gupta (600 BCE–600 CE) · Middle Ganga Narhan–Khairadih → NBPW–Buddhist Ganga
Middle Ganga Chalcolithic–Iron Age village (c.2000 BCE–600 CE) on the Ghaghara–Ganga doab at Khairadih near Buxar/Ballia — excavated 1981–83 by Birendra Pratap Singh (BHU Banaras).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chalcolithic through Ottoman; EBA III, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Philistine/Judahite, Crusader–Mamluk · EBA Canaanite → Philistine Pentapolis (Sea Peoples) → Judahite fortress → Crusader
40 ha Philistine pentapolis capital — EBA to Crusader tell with Gath Siege Trench and Goliath inscription (c.5000 BCE–present).
